Top 100 Light A Candle Quotes
#1. To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.
Bill Crawford
#2. Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire
Marilyn Manson
#3. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." ~ Chinese Proverb
Tim Baker
#4. How can I light a candle? Before I light this candle, this darkness needs to be thrown out.
Osho
#6. My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness.
Matthew Gray Gubler
#7. It is better to light a candle than complain about the dark'
Ancient Spiritual wisdom now attributed to Mahatma Gandhi but I have read it elsewhere.
Unknown
#8. It's better to light a candle than to curse the dark
In the eyes of the youth, there are question marks
K'naan
#9. A wizard's power of Changing and of Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow ...
Ursula K. Le Guin
#10. The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.
Irving Greenberg
#11. Don't criticize or curse at darkness; be wise and never forget to light a candle.
Debasish Mridha
#12. In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.
Al Gore
#15. If you are talented, don't sit in the darkness, light a candle so that others can see you.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. Light a candle for me, I used to whisper to no one.
Someone
Anyone
If you're out there
Please tell me you can feel this fire.
Tahereh Mafi
#17. Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.
Confucius
#18. Optimists are intrinsically happier and happiness breeds further happiness. Light a candle rather than curse the darkness and do not wait for someone else to light it; do it yourself.
Natasha Murtagh
#19. They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles.
George Carlin
#20. The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#21. ...any schmoozer can light a candle.
Che Elias
#22. In the morning I stand up, scratch a little bit, then I light a candle and I meditate. Every morning. I've been meditating for maybe 20 years. I meditate so I can make choices; so I'm not a sheep all the time. So I can see better than what everyone else is doing.
Russell Simmons
#23. Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in a room that's so murky that the candle, when lit, reveals just how bad things really are.
N. T. Wright
#24. Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.
Madeleine L'Engle
#25. I am so grateful for after-school snack time, when I light a candle, pour some tea, slice some apples, and get to listen in on my kids' highs and lows of the day.
Laurie David
#26. When you're sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness - or you can light a candle.
Leonard Ravenhill
#27. You can curse the darkness or light a candle. The choice is yours.
Patrick Kane
#28. I think the difference between me and some people is that I'm content to do my little bit. Sometimes people think they have to do big things in order to make change. But if each one would light a candle we'd have a tremendous light.
Thea Bowman
#29. read a quote once that said 'when you light a candle, you also cast a shadow
Karen Lynch
#30. When I was seven, I decided to buy all my friends some ice cream, but the problem was where to get the money. Sneaking into church, I went to the side of the altar where you can light a candle for your loved ones and took the money from the collection boxes.
Suzi Quatro
#32. Twas said better to light a candle than curse the dark ...
Robert McCammon
#33. Writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.
Alice Childress
#34. She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
Adlai E. Stevenson II
#36. What is writing, after all, except fumbling in darkness endeavoring to light a candle?
Peggy Toney Horton
#37. My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
Vera Wang
#40. Darkness can always visit us; when it comes, we shall light a candle to welcome it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#41. You gonna curse the darkness or light a candle?
Terry Hayes
#42. I'm very romantic when I masturbate. Sometimes I light a candle ... then I try and shoot it out. It's like a carnival.
Dave Attell
#43. The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.
Algernon Blackwood
#44. My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?
Wernher Von Braun
#45. You made me cut and dye my hair."
Surely he understands that we face greater problems? "I thought it would greatly improve your looks," I snap.
"Shorn hair is a sign of shame. You humiliate me greatly."
"I'll light a candle tonight in honor of your dead tresses.
Rae Carson
#46. Light a candle; share the beauty; share the light. Share the blessings and share the delight.
Debasish Mridha
#47. It is about trying to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness, and loving your life even if it has slipped away
Isabel Gillies
#48. If there is any truth in the world, it lies when I'm with you, and if I find the courage to speak my truth to you one day, remind me to light a candle in thanksgiving at every altar in Rome.
Andre Aciman
#49. A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go into the flame and sizzle to nothingness because they're so eager to get to the light on the other side.
Michael Cunningham
#50. I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.
Richard Brautigan
#51. 'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.
Jeph Jacques
#52. A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#53. Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.
Roger Waters
#54. Saving You
The darkness takes him over,
the sickness pulls him in;
his eyes - a blown out candle,
I wish to go with him.
Sometimes I see a flicker
a light that shone from them;
I hold him to me tightly,
before he's gone again.
Lang Leav
#55. A feeble orange light was flickering in the allotments, low down near the ground. Laura looked hopefully towards it. It was a huge pumpkin, its flesh brick-red, its mouth cut into a crude gash, candle- flame dancing through slits for eyes. There was no sign of Autumn.
Sanjida Kay
#56. The journey to the light starts with a candle. Once it's lit, darkness has gone forever.
Adriano Bulla
#57. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
William Shakespeare
#58. We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
Bill Bryson
#59. If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.
Steven Tyler
#60. Now we have lit a candle to the power Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light Itself ...
Philip Jose Farmer
#61. There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing
light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.
Jodi Picoult
#62. One candle is like a smile. One little light can start a whole fire. Smile at someone today.
Gail Thackray
#63. The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light ... It seems to me to be a metaphor for the human soul, the singular light within that great general light of existence.
Marilynne Robinson
#64. Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan.
Geraldine Brooks
#65. The sharia is like a candle," said Shams of Tabriz. "It provides us with much valuable light. But let us not forget that a candle helps us to go from one place to another in the dark. If we forget where we are headed and instead concentrate on the candle, what good is it?
Elif Shafak
#66. A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#67. It was like working in a dark cave with the aid of a single candle. Just when you thought you had spotted the white light of Truth, you would chase it, only to discover that it was someone else, also holding a candle, also looking for the light. A
Thomas L. Friedman
#68. I've attempted to flood the path with light where I could, and where I could not I've wanted at least to hold up a candle so that others coming this way might not stumble too painfully.
Jim Beaver
#69. Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.
George D. Prentice
#70. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#71. In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.
Christopher Hitchens
#72. Life is like a candle, you must light it to see through the darkness.
Thomas F. Shubnell
#73. I use your love as a man burns a candle, burns it away, to light his steps.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#74. I am not yours, nor lost in you, not lost, although I long to be. Lost as a candle lit at noon, lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still a spirit beautiful and bright, yet I am I, who long to be lost as a light is lost in light.
Sara Teasdale
#75. Writing in the dark is hard, but you have to light your own candle and do it anyway.
A.D. Posey
#76. I worship the moon.
Tell me of the soft glow of a
candle light
and the sweetness of my moon.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#77. Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.
Rumi
#78. A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.
James Keller
#79. St. Catherine of Siena once said, 'If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze.' But," I turned to him urgently, "how can I even light a single candle if someone blocks off the first step?
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#81. Where others saw gloom, I saw light or lit a candle.
G.R. Gopinath
#83. On Hanukkah, the first dark night,
Light yourself a candle bright.
I'll you, if you will me invite
To dance within that gentle light.
Nick Gordon
#84. It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#85. Life," he said softly, "is more than flesh. Your body is a candle, your soul the flame. The longer I burn the candle..." He did not finish.
"A candle unused is nothing but wax and wick," I said."I would rather light the flame, knowing it will go out than sit forever in darkness.
S. Jae-Jones
#86. I huddle in the dark with a mass of burnt matches strewn at my feet. And yet, for all of those matches I've not been able to light a single candle. And huddled in such deep darkness, I've somehow yet to realize that Christmas made both matches and candles forever obsolete.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#87. Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.
Abdu'l- Baha
#88. The Wanderer
What is she like?
I was told
she is a
melancholy soul.
She is like
the sun to the night;
a momentary gold.
A star when dimmed
by dawning light;
the flicker of
a candle blown.
A lonely kite
lost in flight
someone once
had flown.
Lang Leav
#89. The rule of thumb is: the lower the temperature of the light, the more hygge. A camera flash is around 5,500 Kelvin (K), fluorescent tubes are 5,000K, incandescent lamps 3,000K, while sunsets and wood and candle flames are about 1,800K. That is your hygge sweet spot. The
Meik Wiking
#90. Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
James Russell Lowell
#91. God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.
Khalil Gibran
#93. She lights a match in the dark hall and moves it onto the wick of the candle. Light lifts itself onto her shoulders. She is on her knees. She puts her hands on her thighs and breathes in the smell of the sulphur. She imagines she slap breathes in light.
Michael Ondaatje
#94. I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.
Ion Keith-Falconer
#95. Here comes a candle to light you to bed, and here comes a chopper to chop off your head.
Neil Gaiman
#96. If one candle is brought into an absolutely dark room, the darkness disappears, and there is light. But if ten or a hundred or a thousand candles are added, the room will become brighter and brighter. Yet the decisive change was brought about by the first candle which penetrated the darkness.57
Erich Fromm
#97. Love is who you are. Your true self is pure love, infinite awareness, and unbounded joy ... As you realize this, you will feel a small light in your heart. At first it will be the size of a spark, then a candle flame, then a raging bonfire.
Deepak Chopra
#98. Just as the light of a candle has the power to dispel darkness in a room, so also the light developed in one man can help dispel darkness in several others.
Sayagyi U Ba Khin
#99. Carry your bag by yourself; carry your umbrella by yourself; open your door by yourself; light your own candle! Do your job by yourself! Don't use others! Don't behave like a king, don't behave like a queen! Be humble!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#100. Her boyfriend can't hold a candle to me. Especially not while I'm holding the strobe light. It's hard to do modern dancing when you're living like it's 1882. Still, I make it look pretty easy.
Jarod Kintz
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